
This file describes the data and files to replicate all numerical results in Enns, Peter K. Forthcoming. "How a Seemingly Innocuous and Intuitive Methodological Choice Confused a Generation of Research on Policy Responsiveness." Sociological Science.

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Necessary packages:
1.) cem (for coarsened exact matching: https://gking.harvard.edu/cem)
ssc install cem

2.) _gstd01 (is an extension to the egen command to standardize the specified variable into [0,1] range)
net from https://staskolenikov.net/stata/
then select _gstd01, then click "click here to install" 
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Optional packages:
1.) ssc install texresults2 (Not needed to reproduce numerical results. Only needed to export numerical results to .txt file, which .tex file calls to automatically insert numerical results in manuscript.)


Data:

1.) DS1_0.dta
Gilens' original data.
Originally accessed here: http://www.russellsage.org/research/data/economic-inequality-and-political-representation
The above link is broken, but original version of data still available here:
*https://web.archive.org/web/20130119074813/http://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/datasets/DS1_0.dta

2.) DS1_v2.dta
Updated (2015) version of Gilens' data
Available here: https://www.russellsage.org/datasets/economic-inequality-and-political-representation
Used for exact replication of Kopkin and Roberts (2023)

3.) Main dataset for United States, from Gilens 2012.xlsx
Used for Mathisen replication.
Gilens' data, accessed from Mathisen, Ruben, 2023, "Replication Data for: The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JM7LGF, Harvard Dataverse, V1; Main dataset for United States, from Gilens 2012.xlsx [fileName]

4.) TablesFromPageBartelsSeawright.xlsx
Includes results reported in Tables 4-10 from Page, Benjamin I., Larry M. Bartels and Jason Seawright. 2013. “Democracy and the Policy
Preferences of Wealthy Americans.” Perspectives on Politics 11(1):51–73.

Do Files

NOTE: Figure A-1 is an images from websites (urls provided in Supplementary Appendix)

1.) LoadGilensDataRecodeConfirmAccuracy.do
- loads data, recodes variables, and reproduces Gilens' main findings; automatically called when necessary by subsequent do files.

2.) Run1st_Col1Col3Tab1Tab2TabA1TabA2_Fig1Fig2Fig5.do
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- NOTE: Set working directory at top of do file to a folder named, "Enns_SociologicalScience_Reproduction" that includes the above data, then all subsequent do files can be run.
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- Table 1: Columns 1 and 3
- Table 2: Columns 1 and 3
- Table A-1: Columns 1 and 3
- Table A-2: Columns 1 and 3
- Figure 1
- Figure 2
- Figure 5

3.) Table1_Table3_TableA5_FigA2_FigA3.do
- Table 1: Columns 2 and 4
- Table 3
- Table A-5
- Figure A-2
- Figure A-3

4.) Table2TableA2.do
- Table 2: Columns 2 and 4
- Table A-2: Columns 2 and 4

5.) Figure3FigA4_CEM.do
- Figure 3
- Figure A-4

6.) Figure4_TableA3.do
- Figure 4
- Table A-3

7.) TableA1.do
- Table A-1: Columns 2 and 4

8.) TableA4_Col3.do
- Table A-4: Column 3

9.) Table4_TabA6_TabA11.do
- Table 4
- Table A-6
- Table A-11

10.) TableA7TabA8TabA9TabA10FigureA6.do
- Table A-7
- Table A-8
- Table A-9
- Table A-10
- Figure A-6

11.) FigureA5_TableA4.do
- Table A-4
- Figure A-5

12.) Appendix1_AffluentCannotProxyForSuperRich.do
- Results reported in Appendix 1

13.) App10_1_AppendixSamplingError.do
- Results reported in Appendix 10.1

14.) App10_1_DifQuestionWordingDifResponses.do
- Additional results reported in Appendix 10.1

15.) App10_2_Sims.do
- Results reported in Appendix 10.2



